Schedule 2 - Amendments to the Police Act 1996
Police and Justice Bill
10:30 am
Derek Conway (Old Bexley and Sidcup, Conservative)
With this it will be convenient to discuss amendment No. 82, in schedule 2, page 72, line 5, at end insert—
‘Objections to alterations proposed by Secretary of State 28In section 33 (objections to alterations proposed by Secretary of State), after subsection (3) there is inserted—
“(3A)Police Authorities shall, before the end of the period of four months specified in subsection (3) above, make provision to obtain the views of every registered elector in the area which their authority covers by way of a referendum.
(3B)Where a majority of electors vote against the proposed alterations in a referendum initiated under subsection (3A) above, the Secretary of State shall not proceed with such alterations.”’.